For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what's known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be ...

If such a distribution doesn't sound like the familiar bell-shaped curve, you're right. Along the hilly slopes of the bell curve, most values -- the data points that track whatever is being ...

The bell curve model limits the quantity of people at the top and also reduces incentives to the highest rating. Given the arbitrary five-scale rating and the fact that most people are 2,3,4 rated ...

The bell curve, a social science mainstay, describes the expected distribution of many things, including grades. For example: 5 percent A’s, 15 percent B’s, 60 percent C’s, 15 percent D ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Shaft directs our conversation of ‘Benjamin Button’ back to the ...